Latest trends in Prints...

 The above's Miu miu, Louis Vuitton this season. Well, that means DYLAN's way ahead of trends!!! I've always been a fan of quirkiness and such, it shouldnt be a trend. It should be here to stay.... non? There's always a child in each of us.

Below are bespoke piecces for my clients. ^_^ ....

New Collection for the Festive Season!

CERISE

Cerise means Cherry in French.
I love the colour. It literally pops and breaks the blues and black.
If you have been wearing lots of blacks, please, discard them already OR
at least match it with colourful accesories.
The fabric is classically tweed.
Soft and elegant and easy to match with black heels and bag.

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POP IN FUCHSIA

This has to be one of my favourites :)

First of all, the colour makes me so happy.
Secondly, I designed a low back for it, which is so tough to find in the dresses from the mall.
Last but not least, the peek a boo tulle, which can be customised to be a detachable one as well ups the beauty of this dress. I love the way it flounces as I walk.
Pair it with slingbacks like i did and I am sure you will turn heads with it.

 

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THALIA

 

100% silk in Jewel Emerald.

This can be customised to any colour you want as well.

The exquisite pleated neckline adds oomphs of feminity to the piece.

Perk up with pearls, a long statement necklace or a belt like the model.
This is understatedly elegant.

J'adore.
Beaucoup.

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YUNA IN ORIENT

Flaunt your sexy shoulders in Yuna.

Lovely flora prints on a coral base bordered by contrasting turquoise pipings.
Unconventional in an A-line cut and slits on the sides.
Don up an elegant hair do and slip on a pair of slingbacks and this perennial cheongsam is elegance understated.
This textured cotton linen blend is a limited edition printed fabric from Japan.
It would be hard to give it a miss.

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NUAGE

Nuage means 'clouds' in French.
This alluring and elegantly piece in pure silk is a timeless classic.
We adore the unassuming yet versatile colour of Nuage paired with a fabric sash tied into a bow.
Simple yet stunning.

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I was ecstatic when i saw this fabric which is imported from Japan.


I knew immediately what kinda dress it will be made into. I wanted to revive happiness in the person wearing this and thus I added pleats and pockets and all things nice et oui, I wouldn't forget the bow sash too. ^_^

You know what else? It's so forgiving to the body as well with the colour blocking technique on the top for a slimming effect and a pleated flare bottom to hide wide hips and thick waist. The pockets , sash and prints will take away the focus if you are heavy bottomed.

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RACHELLE

Rachelle with a pink leather belt
Rachelle with a pink leather belt

Good quality tweed blend in Ecru.

That means you can accessorise this piece with almost any shade of colour.
Just like Alexa, it's another versatile piece I will recommend to you.
Tres simple yet chic and versatile.
Every girl needs one of these in her wardrobe to play around with her accessories.
Here's the model posing with a Vera sash tied into a bow.

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DELIGHTEDLY BOW

 

Vanilla tweed in burst of coloured happiness.

The textured multi coloured polka dots on the fabric definitely makes it one of the most interesting fabric i have come across so far.

The pretty bow at the neckline makes it even more irrestible.
This is definitely one of the pieces that is able to take you from day to night.

 

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CLAIRE

Tres alluring, especially with the soft, fluttery chiffon sleeves in vanilla.

Made of imported designer cotton from the States in the sweetest pink hue.

Wear it with pearls on your décolletage and a clutch in your hands and you are ready to head out.
This piece can be transformed into a tube dress as well if you tuck the sleeves in .
Definitely one of my favourites.

 

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BRITTANY

Remember Alanis Morisette singing that catchy song "Hands in My pocket" ?



It makes me so so chirpy everytime i hear it. It's got nothing to do with Brittany, but i understand that pockets to place our nic-nacs and hands are so important. I know it's corny, but i love to wear outfits with pockets when i fetch D, i place my Blackberry and hands sanitiser in them..;) and i just whip them out effortlessly...
Brittany's grey cooling cotton blend with cascading ruffles on the sides. Grey's the new black, has no one told you that? You can wear this piece sans belt if you want because the ruffles are already aesthetically pleasing ^_^. However, a chiffon belt of any colour can be customised along with this piece.I have paired it with a fuchsia chiffon belt on the mannequin.

 

Please contact me at elaine@dylan.sg to make an appointment to view the dresses or discuss tailoring a bespoke for you .

Lookbook

Here's welcoming the addition of the Lookbook on DYLAN.

Thanks for your continual belief in donning happy colours and pretty dresses.

We are looking forward to more of them in the upcoming collection!

Be on your toes! ^_^

Bespoke for Silvia

This has to be one of the most memorable engagement dinner I ever attended. That's mainly cause the couple had a very romantic entrance singing a duet and I was seated amongst old secondary school mates. I was really very excited and very happy that night to see Silvia in her cheongsam which I had the honour to design for her. The feeling of being/playing a part in someone's big day is indescribable happiness and satisfaction. I just felt so happy when I saw how stunning and elegant she looked with her hairdo and all. Though this is the second wedding cheongsam I had designed, the fact that I could attend the dinner and to see the dress on the bride in person really makes a difference.( That's because the first cheongsam was for an overseas client in the States.) Let me share with you the pictures of that night. Some of which courtesy of Eddie.

You're fat, so what? Warning... Dont read if you are skinny.

Does it mean you cannot have a life and be pretty?

Now the key is to dress appropriately, let your character shine and be a star.

You are fat, so what?

You should be happy!

You have the boobs those skinny girls dont.

You can save your money on the maximisers, the paddings and the tissue papers.

You define curvy rather than a washboard.

Most importantly, when you are old, you wont suffer from osteoporosis because being skinny means you have brittle bones.

Who says skinny girls have the best of life?

I know a 101 of them who spend tonnes of money on bras to make the hills into mountains,

102 of them who have to have their clothes altered because they are too loose and keep falling off, and a 103 skinny old grannies who suffer from rheumatism, arthritis and osteoporosis because of their weak bones.

Now, do me a favour and stop calling yourself fat.

Also dont look at me in the pictures of DYLAN and think that these clothes are only meant for the skinnies. For goodness sake, read carefully and look at the words"Customised".

Do me a big big favour and rename the word 'fat' as 'curvy'.

Do me another favour and smile at yourself in the mirror instead of frowning.

Do me a last favour and learn how to flaunt what you have and dress appropriately.

Read this month's Her World of Stylish vs Skanky.

Look at Gabourey Sidibe and how much affirmation she has received being herself.

Relish this article below. (Courtesy of harpersbazaar)

With the performance of the year, Gabourey Sidibe is reinventing what it means to be a Hollywood It Girl.

Gabourey Sidibe is sitting in the back room of the Spotted Pig in New York's West Village, having a beer. She has just spent a luxurious half hour with her brand-new boyfriend ("He's a regular guy working a regular job, and I'm scared to take him anywhere"), so she has pep in her sneakered step. She's wearing a sideways Yankees cap, dark jeans, and a striped top from Torrid, her favorite chain store. "You haven't been there?" She giggles, eyes crinkling. "Darling, it's like a torrid affair."

These days, good karma is circling Sidibe like bluebirds in a Disney cartoon. She is an Oscar front-runner following her transformational performance as an abused teen in '80s Harlem in director Lee Daniels's Precious. Her character, Claireece Precious Jones, pregnant with her father's child, disappears into a fantasy world that removes her, however briefly, from a horrendous cycle of abuse by both parents. But a two-hour-long assault this film is not because it is leavened by Sidibe's innate charisma and flashes of wry humor. It's a performance of elegance in an environment devoid of it.

The night before, resplendent in a purple Tadashi Shoji gown, Sidibe was Bazaar's guest to the Museum of Modern Art's benefit honoring Tim Burton. Johnny Depp was in the room (during his People's Sexiest Man Alive week too), but guests threw themselves at Sidibe like she was Rob Pattinson. "We've all been to a place where we've felt ignored and unsupported, so it just affirms the meaning of the film's story to me," she says of the adoring throngs. "Ashley Olsen hugged me for a long time — like rubbing my back and everything — and said, 'I am so proud of you.' How cute is that?" After all the hugs, it took half an hour to get Sidibe out the door. "It's harder to get through places," she observes, fondly recalling those anonymous days at Torrid. "It really is."
What's unique about Sidibe, why people won't let her leave a room, is that she's like no one who's made it in Hollywood in a very long time. She plays the heroine in a story that makes There Will Be Blood look like a Judd Apatow movie. She's overweight (her size pronounced, though, in Precious due to pregnancy padding). She's had no formal acting training and auditioned for Precious only because a friend encouraged her. She is a star now not because she knew the right people or wore the right dresses; she made it because she acted her heart out.

"Roger Ebert!" Sidibe is saying, crinkling again. "His review was basically a love letter. Growing up, I used to watch Roger Ebert. And I was like, 'Who said it was good? Ebert said it!'?" She gets frustrated, though, when she reads another kind of synopsis of Precious: "'Gabby Sidibe is an overweight black girl who is illiterate and pregnant by her father,'" she parrots. "Look, I am black. I'm also overweight, but that's not the point of the story. The point is the abuse and her bravery. This stuff happens to skinny people, to white people, to so many different people that they've missed the point if they say it's about a fat girl."

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Harlem, Sidibe, 26, is the younger of two siblings raised by her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, a subway R&B singer. ("My dad's around, but my parents have been divorced for a long time.") She was a psychology major at Mercy College in 2007 ("I wanted to be a comedian, but I peaked before I was nine") when her friend Henry pushed her to do the Precious audition. "Lee Daniels saw my tape, and then he had a meeting with me. After talking to me, he didn't even have me audition again," she remembers. Fast-forward to last year's Sundance Film Festival, standing ovations, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signing on as executive producers, and "finally!" the film's release in November. "She literally just walked off the street into an open casting call, and the rest is history," says Winfrey. "She's a superb actress, because Precious's story is nothing like her story."

Winfrey continues, "It's like she's from another planet, because she's so evolved, so confident, so secure about who she is. Every time we've been at a premiere, I ask her, 'Is this like the fantasy world in the movie?' When you see her as Precious, you're convinced she is that character, but really, she's the character who has fantasies of walking down the red carpet."
Sidibe is enjoying this moment, and Boyfriend X helps with any performance anxiety. "When I went on Conan, I texted him and he said, 'You've got it. Don't slip on any banana peels and you'll be fine.' " She's even — relatively — sanguine when British tabloid reporters show up on her mother's doorstep. ("My mom's a nice lady, but she's an entertainer herself, and she loves to answer questions. But I just — I can't have her do it.") And sometimes X will text her and say, "Everybody at work is talking about you."

She's excited about other big stars now in her orbit and isn't too cool to admit it. "I love Iman. She hugged me and was like, 'I love you,' and I was like, 'I love you!' Like, I was wearing her makeup." She's had a crush on Justin Timberlake since he was in 'N Sync. "Man! Justin Timberlake is always good. God, there are so many hot dudes in Hollywood right now. I'm such a fanny, fanny girl. Bradley Cooper. How hot is he?"

In her own way, Sidibe is becoming a pinup too. She adores photo shoots. "I feel like a model. It justifies everyone in my life who told me I wouldn't be anything until I lost weight. It justifies that little girl who cried because she didn't think she could be in front of the camera. And it's for other girls who feel like they can't do this or that and feel like they're not pretty and not worthy of having their photo taken."

Sidibe was not born this evolved, however. "It came late, too late in my life," she says. "Something like 21. I just know that I was tired. I was tired of thinking less of myself because others did." Daniels, with whom Sidibe has an admirably frank relationship, told the New York Times, "[Gabby] may be in a state of denial or on a higher plane than the rest of us, but either way, she breaks your heart in the movie." She sits back. "I was like, 'What the hell? I'm in denial?' No, I know what I look like. I'm very much aware."

She adds, "People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?' It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and," she chuckles, "you must decorate it."

Sidibe's favorite decoration to date is the red David Meister dress she wore to the L.A. premiere of Precious. "It was so va va voom, my boobs looked so good in it. I had diamonds on too. Diamonds really do it." While her size makes off-the-runway looks an impossibility, she's not that bothered. "I don't really care because it gives me more freedom. I don't just flip through a magazine and say, 'I want this,' because I can't, really."

She's bemused by Kate Moss's recent recitation of the diet dictum "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." "Well, I wouldn't know," she says. "I've never been skinny. I've heard it before. It's just one of those things that people say that doesn't really mean anything in my life. She didn't make it up."
Sidibe feels pretty good, actually, and is working on feeling better. Today she is joining a gym, noting with some humor that her primary source of energy as she's been hurtling around the country of late has been "Red Bull, which I'm sure isn't the greatest thing." About a year ago, she used to "swim 100 laps a day." How did she look then? Bigger shoulders, stronger? "Nah," she laughs, "just like this."

You won't see Sidibe in a yoga studio anytime soon, though. "I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I'd stab them." At the end of the day, "it doesn't make any sense to kill yourself, because who are you trying to be beautiful for? It's a mind game, not a body game."

When you're rich, photographed, and famous (well, two of the three), other doors will open. She fantasizes about cashing in, doing ads in Japan like George Clooney. "I've thought about it," she says with a wink. "I'd probably advertise cherry soda. Cherry soda ... um, muffins ... something sexy ... I know, cherry-muffin soda!"
Speaking of global recognition, she's heard Precious may have been screened in the White House. "I heard a rumor that President Obama knew who I was. You know, because Oprah is all up in his shizz, so I think that he might be aware of me." She laughs. "But then again, he's also aware of the whole world. He's probably a little brain busy."

And so, of course, is Sidibe. She recently completed a role in the pilot for the upcoming Showtime series The C Word, but there's always time to get esoteric. If she met herself at a party, "I'd think I was pretty. Is that weird? I might be really interested in me. I'd probably watch myself the whole night, then I'd come over and say, 'You're a really good dancer.' We'd talk for a while and then," she says, starting to giggle at the silliness of it, "we'd go home separately to avoid the paparazzi."

When Sidibe appeared on Ellen in October, armed with a dance she had been practicing for weeks, Ellen DeGeneres implored her to "stay exactly who you are." She lights up at the memory. "I'm just happy to show up. So, I don't have any plans of changing because I really, really like myself. It took a lot of work to get here. It's reaffirming for people to meet me and ask me not to change." She smiles, slyly deflating her you-go-girl balloon. "And now we cry."
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http://www.listaholic.com/the-ten-hottest-fat-celebrities.html

Look at those 10 hot celebrities above. What does that say now? Does it mean that if you are curvy , you cant be a diamond?

Next time you feel insecure about how you look in front of the opposite sex, picture him growing old with a pot belly and laugh beautifully.